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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 12

Compared to trump, Richard Nixon was a warm and fuzzy much beloved guy.

I’ve been watching presidential approval rates since 1972. I’ve NEVER seen anyone as hated as trump is.

Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 12

Look who turned up in @cnn.com timeline of trump/Epstein bromance.

Ken Starr represented both Jeffrey Epstein and trump. What an upstanding guy.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 12

@cnn.com timeline of trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. If trump is innocent of wrongdoing, he’s the guiltiest looking innocent guy in history. Epstein was trump’s best friend. www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/p...

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A definitive timeline | CNN Politics

A timeline of Trump’s interactions with Epstein and Maxwell reveals a long pattern of social proximity and one that stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s public downplaying of their friendship.

www.cnn.com

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 11

#TACOTime

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump keeps acting in China’s best interests — at the expense of America’s

The Chinese Communist Party and its nationalist supporters think Trump is doing a great job.

www.msnbc.com

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 10

Midwest-ish. Everybody in the actual south thinks I’m a yankee.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Eradication of negative but accurate scientific information. Just like Joseph Stalin. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

www.cnn.com

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Treaties meant nothing to Hitler.

Why should his modern day minions behave any differently?

Laura @redheadedtraveler.bsky.social · Aug 6

I mean, we don't own the moon. That's not how this works, at all.

Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Using a little known method of constitutional amendment. Fully recognized and approved by the Founders

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Aug 6

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Same here. I grew up shuttling between the Baptist, Church of Christ, Methodist and Christian churches depending on which relative or friend I accompanied.

I NEVER encountered anyone like these white “Christian” nationalists. The US evangelical movement is nothing but a naked power grab.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Past experience strongly indicates that we’re screwed.

The only reason we dodged 5 million dead from covid was that trump had someone sane in his first stab at destroying America that slipped the vaccine fast track document into a stack.

Thank God trump doesn’t read before he signs.

Forbes @forbes.com · Aug 5

In the Guangdong province of China, COVID-like hospital quarantines are in effect to help stop the spread of chikungunya virus.

New Illness Spreading In China: What To Know About The Chikungunya Virus

In the Guangdong province of China, COVID-like hospital quarantines are in effect to help stop the spread of chikungunya virus.

www.forbes.com

Reposted by Michael Hale

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · Aug 6

ICE arrested Elsy Noemi Berrios without cause or due process, damaging her car and traumatizing her family in the process. America cannot be a country where this is considered acceptable.

Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121

#DisappearedInAmerica
#AbductedByTrump

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

NPR has very sound and truthful reporting. You see what’s happening to them.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

Yeah. The Bible says “render unto Caesar”. It doesn’t say “become Caesar and forget everything Jesus said”.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

Not to scare you but half of the news agencies in the US are underreporting how bad things are and the other half is outright complicit.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

My friend…There is NO rock bottom for these people.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

It’s not my America anymore. On top of that…”Christianity” has gone almost completely haywire. A lot of them will cheer as the republicans burn the planet thinking that it will bring on the rapture or some such nonsense

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

Integrity and decency are no longer part of the republican credo. That’s gone. Potentially forever. Being decent wasn’t helping achieve their goals. They still had tragically sucky policies.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

The really sad part is that there are obviously large swathes of America that are populated by people who are too ignorant or who are too in love with cruelty to know or care (let alone vote) for what’s right.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

This won’t be fixed in my lifetime. The republicans will never cede power just because they can’t win without cheating. trump has indisputably proven that being a malignant narcissist who lies with impunity and has no shame, morals, ethics or respect for the law is the republican way forward.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

We’ve had some gloriously righteous political leaders before now. You might be interested in this 👇

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...

Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

Yes. Yes it is.

You’ve probably already noticed this but it’s not the only nutso thing going on here. Nor is it the worst.

The US has lost its collective mind.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

We’re not very nice people. As a group. Obviously we have some kind and generous individuals BUT, as a group, American voters are ignorant assholes. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Neşe 🇹🇷💙 🇩🇪💙 🇺🇸 @nese805.bsky.social · Aug 6

I grew up in Europe and when I first heard about coworkers donating their sick days to a sick coworker in this country I didn’t understand. What?In one of the richest countries in the world you are done if you are seriously sick and no coworker to donate their sick days? How is this possible?

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

About 16 years ago the right wing lunatics (who used to be the “fringe”) went into hyperdrive outrage mode because…wait for it…President Obama used Dijon mustard instead of the “patriotic” yellow variety.

Ah…the good old days.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

We’re very close to the point where you’re pretty safe just assuming that any right wing politician you might have to deal with is a sexual predator.

The Island Packet @islandpacket.com · Aug 6

May, who has been charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse materials, is being held without bond at the Edgefield County jail pending trial.

Suspended state Rep. RJ May allegedly sent child porn to Oklahoma nurse, Feds say

May, who has been charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse materials, is being held without bond at the Edgefield County jail pending trial.

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Michael Hale @mthsr1.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you were to literally pick any weekday from the last 7 months, I guarantee that if President Obama had done any ONE of the horrible/scandalous things that trump did on the chosen day republicans would have been howling for his blood. They would have funded an election cycle over that one thing.